Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were dangerous for women. Articles in the Lancet declared that women's brains would burst and their uteruses atrophy… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
“Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions. for safety on the streets¦ for child care, for social welfare... for rape crisis centers, womens refuges, reforms in the law. If someone says… — Dale Spender Copy Share
men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior. — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators. — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new. — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
men have their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue that men… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying. — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all. — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
